#awkward-aeries

Rule #1: Always post the rules. Rule #2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, then write 11 new ones. Rule #3: Tag 11 people, then link them in the post.

1. Your favorite lyric of your current favorite song? 

The lines: “Yeah, my bags are packed/ Better watch out ‘cause I’m coming back/ To a place I know/ And there’s nowhere else I’d rather go!” from the song Home by Lauren Fairweather. It fits where I am in life right now I as pack to go back to Uni for my second year and my flight can’t come soon enough! (though the song is in reference to the Harry Potter books).

2. A book you never finished?

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I couldn't get invested because of the style it is written in, though I love the premise. I'll try again in a few years.

3. A book you thought was overhyped? 

I must admit I thought the Harry Potter books were overrated (this was before I read them though! Now I am close to obsessed). 

4. A book you used to love that now embarrasses you? 

I have to agree with Chem, The Left Behind Series. I do still like that it tries to help you wrap your head around the Book oRevelation, but the characters! Blegh. 

5. Which fictional world would you live in? 

First instinct is Tolkien's Universe but I'm pretty sure that unless I was a Hobbit, I wouldn't survive. So I'm gonna say the Harry Potter Universe. I would love to be a Wandmaker or Wizarding Historian. How cool would that be!

6. Rate the last book you read on a scale of 1-10.

The last book I read was Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling under the penname Kennilworthy Whisp. I loved it! It's a 9 for sure! I just wanted it to go into more detail than it did. I want to know more about the teams for the Quidditch world cup and how they picked who played. I also want to know more about the teams who are not based in the UK and Ireland. Etc. (Told you I was kinda obsessed).

7. What’s your favorite film adaptation of a book? 

You're gonna make me choose?! I'm gonna pick the How to Train Your Dragon movies, not for faithful adaptation, but for the way it was adapted. The books were good (the ones I've read. I've just recently finished book eight), but the movies had a kind of magic the books did not. And the care that went into those movies, just wow. 

8. What’s a sequel you hated? 

I really can;'t think of anything in particular...I guess Mattimeo by Brian Jacques. I didn;t really care of it, and is my least favorite of the Redwall series, but I don;t know if I would go so far as to say I hated it.

9. What, if any, books do you own multiple copies of?

The Hobbit. I have an old copy picked up at a second-hand bookshop ages ago by my mom (which I have sort-of totally claimed) and a new movie cover one that I don't have to be as careful with.

10. Which author have you read the most of?

AGGHH, I don't knoooooow... I read so many authors. My best guess would be Brian Jacques. I have read all of the Redwall books, and there are quite a lot of those.

11. What’s a book you’re currently meaning to buy?

Ugh. So many.

The Harry Potter series, the rest of the How to Train Your Dragon series (books 9+), the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, and I need me some Terry Prachett. 

  Okay, I’ll tag awkward-aeries ladyhistory Elfpen carriehopefletcher fishingboatproceeds edwardspoonhands karenkavett thingsabouthufflepuffs  amazingphil laurenfairweather and you again CHEMICALLYWRIT! NOW YOU MUST ANSWER YOUR HARD QUESTIONS!!

Questions: <-Chemicallywrit's

What’s a book you read over and over?

The Tales of Bettle the Bard. I love reading Dumbledore's comments on each story, especially on wandlore for the "Tale of Three Brothers."

What’s a book you read once and can never read again?

Do you mean in a bad way? Because that is the only time I’m reading a book just once! Nothing really comes to mind.

What’s your evangelism book—the one you want all your friends to read?

It’s a non-fiction book called A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It’s about a woman who is tired of people tossing around the phrase “A biblical woman does this.” “A biblical woman doesn’t do that.” Blah blah. So she decides to take the whole bible literally and not just be selective, for a whole year! She does research into the different practices and sheds a lot of light onto the subject of womanhood and really opens up discussion.

What’s a book you want to keep for no one else to read ever but you?

I really enjoy talking about books I’ve read with others so…probably no book. I like the communities that build up around good books.

What’s the first book you remember reading?

This collection of short-stories for children (I don’t remember what it was called). The story that I remember in particular was “Stone Soup.”

What’s a piece of non-literature art—poetry, painting, etc.—that you always thought had a bigger story?

The Mona Lisa. I want to know who is woman was, who she became, and why she had no eyebrows.

Do you read the ending of books first like a godless heathen? (Mostly joking)

Hardly ever! What do you take me for? A godless heathen?? (Also Mostly joking)

What’s the most dog-eared book you own?

My second-hand copy of The Hobbit. Hands. down.

What song’s stuck in your head right now?

You Stole my Cauldron But You Can't Have my Heart byCelestina Warbeck. You know, the song recently released on Pottermore and is performed live at the new Diagon alley expansion in the Warner Brothers theme park? I’ve caught myself humming it for the past several days.

Here is the link to a video of the life performance at the park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdOo5YHUR0 (this is all of the live performance; my favorite is the last song). Seriously listen to it, it's awesome!

What song do you wish was stuck in your head right now?

The (spoiler for How to Train Your Dragon 2!) The wedding song Stoick and Valka sing to one another, but I can’t remember the words or tune!

Do you have any songs that affect you like lullabies?

Not really. The closest thing would be an instrumental track from My Neighbor Totoro performed by The East Winds Ensemble. It relaxes me.

Clocky’s Questions:

What is your favorite movie soundtrack?

Who was a fictional person you looked up to as a child or currently look up to?

What is the weirdest stuffed animal you have ever owned?

What song is your guilty pleasure?

If you could magically and immediately know how to play (and play well) any instrument, which would it be?

What fictional language do you wish you could speak?

If you could ban the use of any single word, no one would be able to write, speak, or think of it again, which word would you choose?

What is your favorite color and why is it your favorite?

If you could take an all-expenses paid one week trip to anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?

If you could meet one person from the past (but nothing you did or said could change the course of history) who would you want to meet?

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Congratulations to Sabrina for 100,000 subscribers! 

My transparent congratulatory pic for Sabrina's YouTube channel Nerdy & Quirky, depicting both sides of the title. I realized halfway through that it was backwards and I put the nerdy Sabrina on the side where it says quirky but whatever! huzzah for laziness!

But seriously, go follow this girl everywhere because you know how people say that if you don't have anything to say, don't speak and whatever? Well she's got a lot to say and I want her words and creativity reach as many people as possible.